santa!

 Janu had a great xmas. Woke to an excited smile, tiptoeing up the stairs together. Santa had come! He had eaten the bickies we’d left out, left some footprints (‘I wonder why he dropped the flour’, Janu said! about my sprinkle of ‘snow’ around a shoe.). look of delight pulling pressies out of his stocking.

We then tumbled into the surf for a swim, joined by my uncle and aunt, Tom & Jenny. Cold but perfect. Surf lifesavers gave J a lollipop. Written on their chalk board - Conditions: Perfect.

Games, pressies, snacks, books, paints, cherries from mum’s tree, raspberries from tom’s canes. Janu unwrapped: colourful plasticine, toy trains, books old & new, gardening tools, a water bottle… I got some buttons from the op shop! Adrian got 12 clinking bottles of local beer. One had gingerbread men crushed up somewhere in the mix, and was 13%.